Not many technology professionals
would have started an IT consultancy
firm in the immediate aftermath of the
tech wreck, but Chris Dalton thought it
was the perfect moment.
“I had seen enough examples of what
didn’t work and knew that if we put
together the right kind of consultancy,
based on what defunct dot-com firms had
not done, we couldn’t lose,” Dalton says.
Five years later, the company has a
compound annual growth rate of 70 percent and an organically grown head count
of more than 280. Dalton’s instinct was
right on the money, and Acquity Group
has thrived in a highly competitive arena
that has a 90 percent failure rate, without
taking a cent of venture capital.
As president and CEO, Dalton focuses
on going head to head and winning business from the biggest firms in the industry. He creates and implements holistic
solutions that satisfy marketplace
demand.
Dalton’s passionate leadership and eye
for innovation was instrumental in the
rapid growth of the company’s technology offering, Commerce OnDemand. In less than a year, clients as diverse as
Menard’s and Burton Snowboards have
signed up to benefit from Acquity
Group’s integrated e-commerce solution
and world-class expertise.
In March 2007, The University of
Illinois at Chicago inducted Dalton into
the prestigious UIC Institute for
Entrepreneurial Studies Chicago Area
Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.
HOW TO REACH: Acquity Group, www.acquitygroup.com